Stabroek Weekend

My child is blind and I was told he should learn braille.

You would hardly believe that the petunia could be a close relative of the potato, tomato, and tobacco, but it is a fact.

The ‘Chess In Schools’ programme, which has been assiduously promoted by this column and vigorously supported by Dr Frank Anthony, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport and Neil Kumar, Director of Sport, is quickly becoming a reality.

There are none so deaf as those who will not hear.

The first thing that we must decide upon is whether there, in fact, exists a problem during the giving-birth period (parturition).

This last few weeks have been really very hot, blisteringly so, and gardeners everywhere are looking forward to some relief.

In the face of a wide range of contending factors it is not easy to single out one as the most important contributor to the development of Guyanese theatre.

On Saturday evening, Sep-tember 29, it was all over. India’s Viswanathan Anand drew his 14th.

The optometrist told me my son is not seeing because of a scar in the back of the eye from toxoplasmosis.

Who can doubt that small developing countries are being given a blood-raw deal by developed countries?

Introduction I must begin this week with an apology to my readers.

Three thousand miles and seemingly light years away from any issue that might interest the Caribbean, a territorial confrontation of sorts is underway to control uninhabited parts of the Arctic.

Historically, all known definite forms of the state have been particularized by their individual political economy.

We have on several previous occasions alluded to the common features of various different traditional festivals and, in particular, those that are primarily religious.

Nostalgia 16 In F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, one of the pastimes of the indulgent rich was prolonged conversation on “The Best of Everything and Anything.”

Dr Cen Jones, who has died aged 85, was an expert in tropical medicine whose initiatives in following up on the pioneering work of Dr Giglioli, virtually eradicated malaria in British Guiana (now Guyana).

Why does my eye jump or twitch? Sometimes part of your eyelid may twitch for several minutes or hours.

Poetry International Rotterdam is an organisation in the Netherlands that exists for the promotion and propagation of poetry on a full-time basis.

Of the twenty-one games that were played, Spassky won one other, the 11th.,

Sunday Stabroek, August 6, 2006: ‘Not govt’s intention to have food prices increase because of VAT – Jagdeo.’